Today we woke up at 6:30 and went to breakfast at the hotel. We got in the bus and went to the Full On, building! They put us into groups, mine was TEAM SHARK BAIT (oohh hahah). We had Jess, Angelica, Adriana, Megan, Jason, Heath, Brennah, Vrishti, Doniasha, Heaven, Laura, Haylie, Sandra and our leader Steph O! (We honestly had the BEST group!!) The first thing we did was we went up to a grass field and did a maze game where we werent able to talk at all or mark the mat with anything. The goal was to get to the end of the checkered mat without talking and without getting "beeped' we'd get beeped everytime we stepped on a square that wasnt the path to the end. If we do get beeped we have to retrace our steps exactly or we get a 1 minute penalty. We ended up finishing in 13 minutes, but got 4 minutes of penalties, so 17 minutes. After that we went for a very long walk up hill to the castle wall to repel. Only about 5 of us in our group was able to repel because a massive storm came in and it was a safety hazard.
The point of full on is to change your perspective--or know that you can. If your scared of something and think its going to end badly...it will so you can change your perspective so it wont. We talked about comfort zones, and how everyone perceives everything differently. We set goals for our life and the point of today was to "Make IT happen" and we have to figure out that that IT is.
We went to a little gelato shop where we had to learn Italian and order our gelato's in only Italian. Then we went back into the building and were told that we were going to break a piece of wood only with our hands. We had two options, soft break, or hard break; the soft break is where you had to kneel and sit all the way down, put your dominate hand on the wood and the less dominate on the block holding the wood up, focusing all your energy in your hand, and only lifting your hand up no more than an inch and slamming it into the wood to break it; the hard break was where you had to lunge and do a movement with your arms three times, the third time bursting your hand into the wood, and bending your legs and going down with your body. Everyone in my group broke their wood, only a few chose the soft break. I did the hard break and was surprised that i was able to break this large block of wood!
After breaking the wood and having everyone sign it, we talked about how our decisions and actions dictate our life. If we hesitate, we might lose out on opportunities. We have to set goals for ourselves, and change into what we want to be.
I really enjoyed full on, and it made me realize that I need to step out of my comfort zone more often, and do things that are offered to me... if I dont like it or its not for me, I can change my perspective and do something else.
After taking some group pictures, we left Full-On and went to dinner. Of course, Markus took us up very steep hills that never ended...not to mention it was raining and slippery. We got to the restaurant, wifi had "ok" wifi, I ate Turkey with a very good potato and bread.
I got to talk/bond with my bus mate Andrew today.. which was nice. :)
We've got a late bed check- 11pm, but a 6:30 morning again. Tomorrow we will be going to Pisa!!! (3 hour drive--megan and i want the huge seats again!!)
I'm so proud of you!!!
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